Bill Gradison

In October 2002, Bill Gradison was appointed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to a two-year term as a founding Member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), which was created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. From 1999 until the end of 2002, he was senior public policy counselor with Patton Boggs, specializing in health care issues.

Mr. Gradison held elective office for over 30 years and later was president of the Health Insurance Association of America for six years. During his 18 years in Congress, Mr. Gradison was ranking minority member of the House Budget Committee and the Health Subcommittee of the Committee on Ways and Means. He served as vice chairman of the U.S. Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care (the Pepper Commission), and was a member of the Pew Health Professions Commission, as well as the Commonwealth Fund’s Commission on Women’s Health. He also served as vice chair of the Commonwealth Fund’s Task Force on Academic Health Centers.

Mr. Gradison began his career in public service in Washington, D.C., in 1953 as Assistant to the Under Secretary of the Treasury, a position he held for two years. Before returning to his hometown of Cincinnati to launch his career as an investment broker, he also served two years as Assistant to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (1955 to 1957).

While in Cincinnati he served as Chairman of the Board of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati (1970-1974) and was a member of Cincinnati City Council for 13 years (1961 to 1974), serving as vice mayor (1967-1971) and mayor (1971).